What are the customs of the Lantern Festival in different places?
What are the customs of the Lantern Festival in different places? Is the Lantern Festival in 2019 a good time? The arrival of the first month of the lunar calendar, which is the first month of the year, means that we have entered the new year. What should we pay attention to if we want to live a better life in the new year? Shuimoxiansheng.com’s special topic for the first month of the lunar calendar in 2019 will tell you.What are the customs of the Lantern Festival in different places?Hebei ProvinceThe Lantern Festival in Jinghai County is celebrated with big steamed buns. During the Lantern Festival in Qingyun County, men ask the Fifth Patriarch to teach them boxing and martial arts, while women ask Zi Gu to predict good and bad luck. During the Lantern Festival in Yongping Prefecture, sick women gathered under the kiln, which was called "Taojiu". Children cross the bridge in an alternating manner, which is called "overcoming a hundred disasters". Some people also cut paper into nine paper ropes and tie them into knots at random to predict good or bad luck, which is called "tying sheep intestines". Twelve dough bowls are filled with oil and steamed in a pot. The amount of water in the bowls is used to predict whether it will be sunny or rainy that month. Shandong Province During the Lantern Festival, people in Ningyang County, Tai'an City, send lanterns to their ancestral graves. During the Lantern Festival, people living near the water in Zichuan District of Zibo City often release river lanterns. Men, women, old and young in Ju County of Rizhao City go out for an outing on the 16th day of the first lunar month. They call it "walking for an old look" and it is said that walking once a year can keep one young forever. There is a custom of lighting lanterns during the Lantern Festival in Boxing County, Binzhou City. If a boy holds a lantern and walks around the jujube tree six times, chanting "Du Lao Du Lao, bloom and bear jujubes" six times, the jujube tree will have a good harvest. Henan Province During the Lantern Festival in Xiangcheng County, people eat wonton soup, which is called "reunion tea". The daughter's parents will invite her home to celebrate the festival. During the Lantern Festival, all the sick people, young and old, will have stone turtles moxibustioned with fire. If there is a river bridge in the local area, everyone will cross it. If there is no bridge, a "sky bridge" several meters high is built with wooden planks, which is called "walking away all diseases." Shaanxi Province Fengxiang County entertains daughters and sons-in-law on the Lantern Festival, which is called "eating the fifteenth." Sending lamps and oil is called "adding oil". In Huangling County, during the Lantern Festival, each village and township government will hold a yangko competition in the county. At this time, the county town is crowded with people who all come to watch the yangko. Jiangsu Province On the Lantern Festival in Wujin County, people tie reeds into torches about ten feet long and stick them in the fields. This is called "lighting up the wealth in the fields" and is used to predict early floods. The white color of fire represents water, and the red color represents drought. On the Lantern Festival in Yixing, children wear ghost masks, bend their legs and shake their shoulders and dance, which is called "jumping ghosts." Zhejiang Province The most famous Lantern Festival in Haining County is the exquisite chrysanthemum lanterns. Young men from Shangyu County went to the Kanshi platform to compete in martial arts on the night of the Lantern Festival. In Jiande County, families who have a newly married daughter-in-law will set up wine and offer sacrifices to the bed on the Lantern Festival. According to folk tradition in Hangzhou, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the day when the Heavenly Official bestows blessings. Many people fast and recite scriptures, then crawl to Mount Wu to worship. Jiangxi Province During the Lantern Festival, residents of Xinjian County would visit graves and place bamboo lanterns. All the villages in Wan'an County worship the Shangyuan Shenzhou on the Lantern Festival. Hubei Province On the night of the Lantern Festival, old farmers in Yunmeng County hold torches to illuminate their fields, which is called "lighting up the silkworms in the wild." Children welcome the gods with field drums and predict events of the coming year. The "dragon-playing" activity in Wuchang lasts for three days. Men, women, old and young from the whole village follow the dragon lantern to the neighboring village for a banquet, which is called "dragon exchanging wine". Hunan Province In Shangyuan, Changde, every family uses pepper as soup and adds leeks, fruits and other foods to entertain guests, which is called "seasonal soup". After the dragon lantern parade in Xintian County, people burn it, which is called "sending away disasters." Sichuan Province During the Sichuan Lantern Festival, there is a custom of "four stealings": "One is stealing glutinous rice balls, two is stealing green, three is stealing eaves lanterns, and four is stealing red." Except for stealing green for strengthening the body, the rest are customs for seeking children. There is a custom of "swearing at each other" in Kai County. During the Lantern Festival, people move stools outside and vent all their daily grievances by cursing. The person being cursed is not allowed to curse back. Fujian Province Quanzhou lanterns are unique and include incense lanterns, paper lotus lanterns, silk palace lanterns, eight-knot lanterns and so on. On the night of the Lantern Festival in Shaowu County, temples in the area are paraded around the temples to welcome incense, which is called "cleansing the streets." In southern Fujian, there is a custom of children from two villages throwing stones at each other during the Lantern Festival. It is said that if the stone is not thrown, a plague will surely strike the village. Guangdong Province Those Xin'an County residents who gave birth to boys last year all celebrated the Lantern Festival on the night of the Lantern Festival. During the Lantern Festival in Nanxiong, parents would use the dragon whisker string from the dragon lantern to tie it around their children, which was said to protect the children from disease. They also took the remaining candle from the dragon lantern and used it to light the bed, which was said to help give birth to a son. When the people of Wenchang County steal vegetables on the night of the Lantern Festival, those who succeed in stealing consider being scolded as a good omen, while those who fail consider not being scolded as a good omen. Yunnan Province Yunlong County welcomes the three sacred gods before the Lantern Festival and sets up tents along the streets to offer sacrifices. One day after the Lantern Festival in Mile Prefecture, people burn incense on the bridge, throw stones into the water, and then take the water to wash their eyes. It is said that this can cure diseases. Taiwan Province In Taiwan, there is a traditional custom that unmarried women who steal onions or vegetables on the night of the Lantern Festival will marry a good husband. The custom is commonly known as "steal onions and marry a good husband" or "steal vegetables and marry a good son-in-law." Girls who hope to have a happy marriage must steal onions or vegetables from the vegetable garden on the night of the Lantern Festival, looking forward to a happy family in the future. In the Tang Dynasty, there were also music and dance performances at the Lantern Festival, with thousands of palace maids and girls singing and dancing under the lanterns, which was called walking songs and stepping songs. |
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